Report: Allure: The Evening Primrose To Be Adapted As An Adult Anime TV Series By Naomi Osaka

Tennis star Naomi Osaka’s company Hana Kuma and Rebel Maverick are teaming up to adapt Allure: The Evening Primrose as an adult anime TV series according to a new report from Deadline.

Osaka is attached to voice the lead character in a series that is being adapted by Kenny Byerly. The Webtoon hosted manga series that you can read here follows Akane Koizumi, an orphan on the streets of Tokyo has always dreamed of a life of luxury. After an unexpected encounter lands her in the hands of the Yakuza, she’s trained to become the perfect assassin given the enhancement drug, Allure.

The series is expected to be marketed later this year.

Our Take

Look for Prime Video, Netflix, and Crunchyroll to be the favorites to land this series, in that order. That said, with the way Crunchyroll handled another anime original series produced by an LGBT producer just recently, Rebel Maverick(a queer, Afro-Latinx writing and producing team) may look elsewhere.